[Antiracism] Workers vs. transnational corporations: 11/3 at UMass

[Marc Rodrigues]

*please forward widely*


Workers vs. transnational corporations: stories from India, Turkey and US

*a panel discussion with Devrim Duman, Srinivas Lankala, and Marc Rodrigues


THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3rd
11:30 am - 1 pm
302 Gordon Hall, 418 N. Pleasant Street, Amherst

This past year, we've seen workers around the world resist efforts to lower
wages, increase hours of work, intensify the pace of work, and eliminate
jobs. Three UMass-Amherst students were able to work with some of these
workers.

Devrim Duman was an intern with the United Students Against Sweatshops,
based in Turkey. There, workers held a sit-in outside a Coca-Cola plant to
protest mass firings and faced police repression.

Srinivas Lankala worked with students supporting workers at Honda Motorcycle
and Scooters outside of Delhi, India. The workers staged a protest to demand
the reinstatement of fired co-workers, and were attacked by police.

Marc Rodrigues spent the summer working with the Student/Farmworker Alliance &
the Coalition of Immokalee Workers in southern Florida. The Coalition recently
won a multi-year, historic campaign against Taco Bell.


SPONSORED BY THE LABOR CENTER
for more information contact sluce at econs.umass.edu 



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Notes from the Global Intifada
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Para todos la luz.
Para todos todo.
Para nosotros el dolor y la angustia, para nosotros la alegre rebeldía, para
nosotros el futuro negado, para nosotros la dignidad insurrecta.
Para nosotros nada.

-Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, 4a Declaración de la Selva Lacondona